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Robert Evans
1899–1981English cricketer and educator (1899-1981)
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One famous person was born in Great Barton
Robert Evans, the English cricketer and educator, was born in 1899. Their birth falls in the Victorian era. Readers can find them written up in one language. The neighbour with the longest list is Bury St Edmunds, 3 mi away: 84, led by Bob Hoskins.
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Robert Evans
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Famous people from the towns next door
Close by, Bury St Edmunds counts 84 famous people, the most of its neighbours.
Questions about famous people from Great Barton
Who is the most famous person from Great Barton?
Robert Evans (English cricketer and educator (1899-1981)) is the best known by our measure: Wikipedia has an article about them in 1 languages.
How many famous people were born in Great Barton?
1 people born in Great Barton have an English Wikipedia article that confirms the town as their birthplace.
What is Great Barton known for?
Among its famous people, athletes: 1 of the 1. That is 100% of the town’s list, against 49% across UK towns.
Who counts as from Great Barton?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Great Barton’s built-up area (the ONS 2022 boundary), a hospital or district within it included, whose English Wikipedia article agrees. People who only lived here, adult performers and people known mainly for crimes aren’t listed.
Why is someone missing?
Their Wikidata birthplace may be a bigger area (“London”), another town, or missing, or their article may give no birthplace. We only list people both sources agree on; editing Wikidata or Wikipedia changes this page at the next refresh.
From Wikidata (CC0: birthplaces, descriptions, years, occupations) and English Wikipedia (each person’s article confirms the birthplace; linked, not quoted). Birthplaces are placed in the town by the ONS 2022 built-up-area boundary (Office for National Statistics, Open Government Licence v3.0). Ranked by how many Wikipedia languages cover each person. Fields are read from Wikidata’s description and occupations. “The usual town”: everyone listed across UK towns. Portraits: each person’s Wikidata image, from Wikimedia Commons under the licence below (our copy, resized).
Photo credits (4)
- Bob Hoskins: Bob hoskins filming ruby blue.jpg: James Laurence Stewart derivative work: KoS, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Thomas Paine: Auguste Millière / After George Romney / After William Sharp, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Guy Simonds: Canadian government employee, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Kerry Ellis: Steve Lawton Photography, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
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